"The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world domination by the dissolution of other races...and by the establishment of a world republic in which everywhere the Jews will exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order the Children of Israel...will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition..." (Karl Marx in a letter to Baruch Levy, quoted in Review de Paris, June 1, 1928, p. 574)

Thursday, 4 July 2013

Egypt needs real Islamic revolution

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has
fallen in a coup d’état. Morsi’s demise marks the end of the Muslim
Brotherhood’s failed strategy of accommodation with the West.

Nobody denies that the majority of Egyptians wants Islamic
governance. Nobody denies that President Morsi won Egypt’s first-ever
free and fair elections.

But Egypt’s Western-backed secularist comprador elite was not ready
for real democracy. They were not willing to accept the results of free
and fair elections. So with the help of their Western paymasters, they
hamstrung Egypt’s economy, pointed the finger of blame at Morsi, duped
impressionable young people into flooding the streets, and engineered a
coup d’état.

The anti-Morsi coup has strangled Egypt’s democracy in its cradle.

It may also have ended the Muslim Brotherhood’s misguided, hopeless
attempt to Islamize Egyptian society while remaining in the Western
orbit.

Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood made a terrible mistake by forging
an alliance with the West and its regional puppets. The Brotherhood has
become a tool of the Zionist-dominated West, which seeks to divide and
conquer the Middle East by fomenting a sectarian civil war between Sunni
and Shia Muslims. Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, once a respected
Brotherhood intellectual, has disgraced himself by becoming a spokesman
for Zionist-instigated, Saudi-assisted anti-Shia sectarianism.

Perhaps President Morsi thought that if he accepted the West’s
dictates to join their war on Syria, keep the Gaza border closed,
maintain the Camp David “surrender treaty,” enslave future generations
of Egyptians to the International Monetary Fund, and let the Egyptian
Army continue to rule as it did under Mubarak, he would be allowed to
add a bit more shariah to the Egyptian civil code.

It was a devil’s bargain to begin with. And the devil did not even keep the bargain.

President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood need to go back and study
the works of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the
political Islamic awakening that is shaking the globe.

Ayatollah Khomeini insisted that there is no room for sectarianism
in the Islamic awakening. Muslims are Muslims first and foremost,
whether they follow the Hanafi, Malaki, Hanbali, Shafiyi, or Ja’fari law
schools.

The Muslim Brotherhood should stop inciting sectarianism, and stand up for Islamic unity.

Secondly, Ayatollah Khomeini understood that all Muslims have a
moral obligation to side with the world’s oppressed - the mustazafin -
in the struggle against their oppressors. The resistance against empire,
apartheid, Zionism, aggressive war, and all forms of racism and
injustice is also the struggle of all Muslims.

The Muslim Brotherhood should stop kowtowing to oppressive rulers,
be they Western, Saudi, or Qatari, and join the worldwide struggle
against exploitation and injustice.

Third, Ayatollah Khomeini saw that a real Islamic revolution would
require the overthrow of the old order and a complete break with the
West. All of the powerful figures who propped up the Western puppet
dictator, the Shah - especially the military leaders - would have to be
either removed from power or successfully re-educated. And imperialist
institutions such as the IMF would have to be expelled from Iran.

The Muslim Brotherhood should recognize that it must work for a
complete Islamic revolution, including removing all of the West’s
puppets from power and breaking the bonds imposed by Western banks and
governments, if it is to establish the Islamic society that the majority
of Egyptians want. Simply winning an election, while the real power in
Egypt remains with the Western-puppet military, accomplishes nothing.

The Muslim Brotherhood should view its setback in Egypt as an opportunity to reflect on its mistakes.

Its biggest mistake was its refusal to join the axis of resistance -
the Hamas-Hezbollah-Syria-Iran alliance that is standing up to Zionist
and imperialist power, with notable success.

The Brotherhood let its tragic history in Syria blind it to the historic opportunity offered by the rising axis of resistance.

Now is the time to take off the blinders.

A year ago, who would have thought that the two most prominent
Muslim Brotherhood-linked heads of state, President Morsi of Egypt and
Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, would fall from power almost
simultaneously - while the Assad government in Syria not only remains in
power, but continues to gain strength?

The Western mainstream media kept telling us that President Assad was about to fall.

According to them, he has been about to fall for more than two years.

Apparently if you want an accurate view of the Middle East, you
should be reading the alternative media - including Press TV, which has
been consistently skeptical about the West’s claims that regime change
in Syria is always just around the corner.

The axis of resistance is winning in Syria. And it is winning,
slowly but surely, in Palestine, as the world awakens to the truth about
Israeli apartheid.

The axis of capitulation to Zionism and empire is losing.

The future is with the world’s rising economies, not the collapsing West.

Will the coup d’état against President Morsi help awaken the Muslim
Brotherhood? Will the Brotherhood decide to take a new path - the path
to Islamic unity and real Islamic revolution forged 34 years ago by
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?

Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D.
Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known critics of the War
on Terror. Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and
other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in
the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune,
and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and
universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for
Congress in 2008. He is the co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance, and author of the books Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie (2007) and Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (2009). His website is www.truthjihad.com.http://presstv.com/detail/2013/07/04/312153/egypt-needs-real-islamic-revolution/

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